Top 15 Payments Angel Investors in Italy (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Luca Ascani
Angel
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3 | France, Italy, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $589k–$38M |
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Pietro Invernizzi
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom, France, Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $1.1M–$38M |
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Max Ciociola
Angel
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2 | Italy, Germany | Pre-Seed, Series A | SaaS, FinTech, Consumer | |
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Loris Lanzellotti
Angel
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1 | Italy | SaaS, Retail, FinTech | ||
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Anna Siccardi
Angel
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1 | Italy | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Retail | $191k–$531k |
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Lodovico Rosnati
Angel
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1 | Italy | Seed | SaaS, Retail, FinTech | $439k–$603k |
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Jonathan Weiner
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Armenia | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | $800k–$68M |
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Calvin Liu
Angel
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1 | United States, Singapore, China | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency | $1M–$30M |
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Giuseppe Donagemma
Angel
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1 | Italy, United States | Seed, Series A | Apps, EdTech, Banking | $219k–$2.6M |
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Ray Iglesias
Angel
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1 | Italy, United States | Seed, Series A | Payments, Mobile Payments, Apps | |
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Nader Sabbaghian
Angel
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1 | Italy, France, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $531k–$11M |
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Stefano Meloni
Angel
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1 | Italy | FinTech, Finance, Lending | ||
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Stiven Muccioli
Angel
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1 | Italy, San Marino | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Banking | $110k–$38M |
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Nick Carbonari
Angel
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1 | Italy, United States | Seed, Series A | Apps, Banking, FinTech | |
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David García
Angel
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1 | United States, Italy, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $15k–$4.5M |
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Luca is founder and CEO of Lambda Alpha, an investment company focused on early stage investment. Its portfolio includes Bear, the Apple Design Award winner notes app, Fintechs as Lendable and Emma App in London, Mansa in Paris and ScalaPay as well as autonomous robots Gideon Brothers and automated pasta restaurant Cala. Recent investmentsincludes Dishpatch, Airbank and RVVUP. Luca started his entrepreneurial career aged 20 when he launched BuyCentral.it, the first Italian shopping comparison site, in 2000. It was sold to Lycos in 2004. In 2002 he founded ADVance which became the leading digital agency in Italy, subsequently sold to NetBooster. In 2004 he cofounded GoAdv, later rebranded Populis, one of the largest vertical digital publishing groups in Europe and Brazil, listed on the Paris Alternext stock exchange. In 2011 Populis was named the fastest growing company in Ireland and part of the top ten in Europe by Deloitte. In 2012 and 2013 he has brought the TechCrunch conference to Italy with the aim of connecting the Italian industry with international investors. For this same purpose he was co-hosting the 2017 Founders Forum in Rome.From 2010 Luca was in the board of IlSecoloXIX, an Italian north west leading newspaper, then acquired by LaStampa in 2014 and he was in the board of the new group, ITEDI, until it was acquired by Gruppo Espresso in 2017.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, Italy, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$13M; Pre-Seed $589k–$38M; Series A $3.7M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fence — At Fence, we're transforming the way debt facilities are managed. We are the Operating System for your debt facility, reducing the amount of resources spent in back-office operations and letting teams focus on what matters.Our platform, built on blockchain technology, offers a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that simplifies andautomate debt facility operations. Whether you're a capital provider or an asset originator, Fence leads you toward a smarter financial future.For capital providers, our platform enables internet-native debt solutions and real-time portfolio insights, enhancing your credit investment monitoring. With Fence, you stay ahead, making informed decisions for success. Asset originators benefit from enhanced capital efficiency and reduced operational costs, thanks to Fence's automation. We seamlessly integrate debt facilities into your tech stack and provide on-demand programmable debt, giving you unprecedented control over the capital you borrow.
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- ReportAId — ReportAId is an AI-powered software that breathes life into medical reports to make healthcare more organized, customized, and accessible.
Pietro Invernizzi - Founding Partner @ firedrop
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom, France, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- Omnea — The all-in-one procurement platform. Request purchases, automate approvals, and streamline your procurement process in one centralised solution.
- Dimension — The state of the art collaboration platform for modern engineering teams. Chat, project management, smart actions, and more, accelerated by AI.
Product-focused, balance-sheet driven entrepreneur with a 20+ year track record in pioneering, launching and growing profitable businesses in the mobile and media space with broad experience in product, business, and content development for the digital space. Max is founder and CEO of Musixmatch, the World's Largest Lyrics Catalog and MusicAI Company with +70 Mln of users in the world. Musixmatch uses Deep Learning and AI techniques to provide lyrics and language data to most of music digital streaming companies. As first mover in the mobile space Max started in early 1998 with Wireless Solutions, a multi media mobile gateway platform for delivering contents in more than 100 countries over 300 mobile carriers. He then sold his company to Dada, an italian media company, and he spent 7 years with Dada first as CEO Dada Iberia & Latam e then as EVP Mobile Services, leading a team of +100 people and +80 mln yearly turnover. Max is the co founder of AI Labs, an R&D AI Lab in Italy active on Technology Transfer on AI.
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- Industry: SaaS, FinTech, Consumer
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dance — Dance is an electric mobility subscription company that makes it easy to explore your city with an electric bike or moped.
- Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
- Young Platform — Il crypto exchange italiano dove puoi acquistare e vendere Bitcoin e le migliori altcoin del mercato. Accumula criptovalute e costruisci il tuo futuro finanziario giorno dopo giorno.
Loris Lanzellotti is the cofounder of Boost Heroes attended London Business School.
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- Industry: SaaS, Retail, FinTech
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- GrowishPay — GrowishPay is an online platform that enables individuals to raise money for personal causes from their social networks. Its users can raise money for births, education, birthdays, travel, parties, weddings, and more. We provive API and SaaS platform e-wallet based to enable sharing economy.Growish was founded by Claudio Cubito and Domingo S.Lupo in December 2011 and is based in Milan, Italy.
Anna Siccardi - Advisor & Investor @ GrowishPay
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $191k–$531k
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GrowishPay — GrowishPay is an online platform that enables individuals to raise money for personal causes from their social networks. Its users can raise money for births, education, birthdays, travel, parties, weddings, and more. We provive API and SaaS platform e-wallet based to enable sharing economy.Growish was founded by Claudio Cubito and Domingo S.Lupo in December 2011 and is based in Milan, Italy.
- Algor Education — Algor Lab is a company that provides tools and materials needed for teaching through artificial intelligence.
- Algor — La migliore app per le mappe concettuali
Lodovico Rosnati works for Capital Markets based out of Italy.
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- Industry: SaaS, Retail, FinTech
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $439k–$603k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GrowishPay — GrowishPay is an online platform that enables individuals to raise money for personal causes from their social networks. Its users can raise money for births, education, birthdays, travel, parties, weddings, and more. We provive API and SaaS platform e-wallet based to enable sharing economy.Growish was founded by Claudio Cubito and Domingo S.Lupo in December 2011 and is based in Milan, Italy.
- Prestiamoci — Prestiamoci is the first community of loans between individuals born in Italy, allowing you to make profitable investment and to obtain loans with installments transparent.With Prestiamoci the providers invest and get Claimants, returning to its original role of the bank safe. Loans shall be paid by people to trustworthy people who want toachieve their life projects, grow their professional activity, better manage expenses and major purchases
Jonathan Weiner is the Founder of HumanX. He previously worked at FastPay as a Board Member. Jonathan Weiner attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Armenia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Seed $800k–$11M; Series A $3.5M–$18M; Series B $9.5M–$68M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vendelux — AI-Powered Event Intelligence Platform with speaker, sponsor and attendee data covering over 250,000 trade shows and conferences.
- Ledge — Automate your finance operations with Ledge and gain full payments visibility, automated reconciliation, and a single source of payments truth. Say goodbye to manual work and financial data chaos. Get started in minutes, integrate with your existing payments stack, and focus on strategic tasks with confidence.
- OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback
Calvin Liu is the Chief Strategy Officer at EigenLayer. He attended Cornell University.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.4M; Series A $6M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pi Squared — Pi Squared enables trustless remote computing, AI, and interoperable smart contracts for any blockchain or dApp.
- Valhalla — Valhalla is a decentralized exchange platform provider that allows users to trade cryptocurrencies directly from their wallets without relying on intermediaries.
- Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
Giuseppe (Beppe) is a global executive, who has had leading positions during last 20 years of both large corporate organizations (>10.000 people) and entrepreneurial companies.Beppe has been successful in his career thanks to his flexible mindset and hands-on behavior, in addition to excellent relationships’ building capabilities.Hisexperience entails from management of B2B business around the world to responsibility of project management of networks’ operations, from P/L management of 4 billion euros region to fund raising in Asia for a start-up company, from achieving successful change management and revenue growth turnarounds in big corporates to ensuring strategic partnerships for new emerging ventures, from developing the strategy and vision for a new business unit to opening new markets for an expanding company.Beppe always builds high performing and diverse teams to work with, leading them with high energy, confidence and ambiguity tolerance. He’s an attentive listener and an effective (public) speaker. He has a pragmatic and participative leadership style, and an excellent Board presence attitude.Beppe holds an engineering degree, a master (non-degree) in Strategy & Leadership. He is Fellow at Elis, a post-graduation faculty in Rome. He is an enthusiast sportsman, married with two daughters.
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- Industry: Apps, EdTech, Banking
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $219k–$2.6M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lifeed — Lifeed (powered by Life Based Value) is a digital learning platform that unlocks life’s learning potential, transforming employees’ life transitions into professional growth. Companies that adopt Lifeed have access to a set of training and communications resources, a hub for sharing experiences and a dashboard with updated data on employees’experiences. By using a strength-based approach, the Life Based Learning method demonstrates how life events can be maximised to improve the corporate environment, empowering parents, caregivers and transitioners to fully engage and reveal their value within the company, reducing stress and helping them to excel in their careers.Since launching in 2015, Life Based Value has worked with over 80 firms and is being piloted in 23 countries and 218 cities across the USA, Europe, Southeast Asia and Australia. Over 20,000 people have participated and the results indicate that the program can improve soft skills by up to 35%.
- Satispay — Satispay: l'app per i pagamenti di tutti i giorni. Scopri i servizi per pagare e risparmiare, gli strumenti per il Business e i prodotti Welfare per aziende.
- Linko Inc. — Linko Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, California and has the main development studio in Berlin, Germany. Linko Inc. was founded by veteran entrepreneurs Mikko Alasaarela and Vesa Per
Ray Iglesias is the executive chairman of Ubiquity. He has deep leadership experience, having previously held key roles in several successful startup organizations. Ray most recently served as the chief financial officer for TxVia, Inc. At TxVia, Ray raised more than $55 million in funding from top-tier investors including Oak Investment Partnersand Bain Capital before helping to close the sale of TxVia to Google in 2012. He previously co-founded Prepaid Media (2005) and Clarity Payment Solutions (2000), the latter of which was sold to S&P 500-listed corporation Total System Services (TSYS) in 2004. A graduate of Columbia University’s School of Law, Ray previously worked as an associate at Dewey & LeBoeuf.
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- Industry: Payments, Mobile Payments, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FreshPay — FreshPay is a U.S.-based company that operates a payment processing platform for digital currencies. The company was fpunded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.
- Satispay — Satispay: l'app per i pagamenti di tutti i giorni. Scopri i servizi per pagare e risparmiare, gli strumenti per il Business e i prodotti Welfare per aziende.
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Browse database — It's Free!Nader Sabbaghian is the General Partner at 360 Capital.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Italy, France, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $531k–$10M; Series A $7.7M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GrowishPay — GrowishPay is an online platform that enables individuals to raise money for personal causes from their social networks. Its users can raise money for births, education, birthdays, travel, parties, weddings, and more. We provive API and SaaS platform e-wallet based to enable sharing economy.Growish was founded by Claudio Cubito and Domingo S.Lupo in December 2011 and is based in Milan, Italy.
- Soource — Soource is a B2B Saas product that uses AI applications to help purchasing managers to discover the best market solutions through extensive global research and automated email negotiations with thousands of suppliers worldwide.
- Buzzoole — Buzzoole is an influencer marketing platform. It allows brands to integrate key influencers into their digital and social communications in a fully automated, transparent, and ROI-driven approach. Our technology analyses the online conversations of all registered users across each of their social media channels. Through a semantic model, Buzzooleis able to categorize conversations and to identify the topics that users are most influential in, according to its own algorithm. This allows brands to reach out to specific influencers in their niche market in a completely automated way.Buzzoole's business model is a CPP mode. Brands pay on the basis of posts generated by the influencers. This Cost-Per-Post model allows us to offer all sizes of solutions. From startups to top brands. Working with Buzzoole can save companies up to 70% compared with cooperating with external agencies, which is usually a lengthier, more complicated, and more expensive process.Buzzoole's proprietary algorithm solves the analysis and matching problem, and the transparent approach to campaigns means brands will always see how much they are spending, who is working on their campaign, and what their campaign ROI is.
Stefano Meloni - Director of Innovation and Human Resources Development, Organization & QAS @ Brivio & Viganò
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Lending
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SardexPay — SardexPay provides a commercial credit system designed for professionals and companies. It enables companies, freelancers, and associations to exchange goods and services on an online platform via a complementary currency. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Serramanna, Sardinia.
Tech Entrepreneur and investor. The Financial Technology Report awarded him as one of the Top 25 CTOs of the world in the FinTech industry and he was selected as one of the Top 150 FinTech Leaders and Influencers in Italy. Founder and CEO of the Banking-as-a-Service startup BKN301 and founder of the VC firm SM Capital.Founder of Ventis, Fintechcompany sold to Iccrea Banca Group and co-founder of the multi-awarded SportTech startup Golee and the sustainable fashion startup KNIIT Milano. He founded Libertas, the first widely used news App in the Republic of San Marino and founded and later sold the e-commerce company Tippest. Early investor in SpaceX and Palantir (NYSE: PLTR) and Angel Investor of the Founder Institute of San Francisco, the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, based in Silicon Valley, through which he invested in startups like Realty Mogul, Andalin and MallIQ.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, San Marino
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Pre-Seed $110k–$38M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BKN301 — Scopri tutti i servizi dedicati a privati, aziende ed esercenti. Accedi all'area riservata.
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- Ventis — Acquista online abbigliamento per uomo, donna e bambino, arredamento, beauty e gourmet su Ventis. Approfitta delle offerte con la garanzia di pagamenti comodi e sicuri.
Nick Carbonari is the Founder, CEO, and Chairman at eezylife Inc.
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- Industry: Apps, Banking, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Satispay — Satispay: l'app per i pagamenti di tutti i giorni. Scopri i servizi per pagare e risparmiare, gli strumenti per il Business e i prodotti Welfare per aziende.
- eezylife Inc. — A proactive life navigator dedicated to maximizing your life by bringing you personalized solutions based on your character, mood and preferences – enjoy more and share your experiences!
Former Entrepreneur, Investor and current Founder & Managing Partner at Algo Capital.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Italy, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $850k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $15k–$4.3M
- Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow
Portfolio highlights
- dCustody — 2PI is a two sided transactional platforms that connects DeFi with Fintechs
- Kibo Finance — Kibo Finance provides borderless options trading with fair pricing and better rewards.
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a permissionless DeFi lending platform where users can lend and borrow crypto across chains, access loans, and manage digital assets in one unified liquidity protocol.
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